Extracellular matrix and the blood-brain barrier in glioblastoma multiforme: Spatial segregation of tenascin and agrin

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 85-91

  Rascher, Gesa ^a   Fischmann, Arne ^a   Kröger, Stephan ^c   Duffner, Frank ^b   Grote, Ernst H ^b   Wolburg, Hartwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agrin; Blood brain barrier; Glioma; Human; Tight junction

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; CLAUDIN; OCCLUDIN; SCLEROPROTEIN; TENASCIN;

ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TIGHT JUNCTION; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW;

AGRIN; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROCIRCULATION; TENASCIN; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 0036942718     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-002-0524-x     Document Type: Article

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